SS Glitra was a steam cargo ship that was launched in 1881 as Saxon Prince. In 1896 she was renamed Glitra. In 1914 she became the first British merchant...

submarine by another. 1914, October 20 – German submarine U-17 sinks SS Glitra in the first submarine sinking of a merchant ship during the world wars...

could sink it. On 20 October 1914, SM U-17 sank the first merchant ship, SS Glitra, off Norway. Only ten merchants were sunk in that way before policy was...

be sunk by a German submarine was the SS Glitra in October 1914. The submarine, SM U-17, allowed the Glitra's crew to board lifeboats first and then...

Feldkirchener was given command of U-17. On 20 October, U-17 stopped the 866 ton SS Glitra off the Norwegian coast, and having searched her cargo, ordered the crew...

of owning the first ship sunk by a U-boat in the First World War: the SS Glitra which was destroyed in the first week of the war. He died on 14 January...

SS Noordam was a steam ocean liner that was launched in Ireland in 1901 and scrapped in the Netherlands in 1928–29. Holland America Line owned her throughout...

Oct: HMS Holland 4, Takachiho, SMS S115, SMS S119 18 Oct: HMS E3 20 Oct: Glitra 22 Oct: SMS Temes 27 Oct: HMS Audacious 28 Oct: Mousquet, Zhemchug 29 Oct:...

Museum in London. The wreck was removed from Cuxhaven in September 1920. Glitra, the first British merchant ship to be sunk by a submarine after war had...

Karlsruhe again". The Times. No. 40685. London. 3 November 1914. col E, p. 6. "Glitra". uboat.net. Retrieved 18 October 2019. "Alaska Shipwrecks (H) – Alaska...